Pivotal mounting and brace for ironing boards



Feb. 21, 1950 Filed April 21, 1.945

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PIVOTAL MOUNTING AND BRAGE FOR IRONING BOARDS Alpha Perry Lantz, Washington, D. 0. Application April 21, 1945, Serial No. 589,545

1 Claim. (o1; 38-129) This invention relates to ironing boards of the type adapted to be supported from a wall or in a compartment and has for its primary object the provision of a simple and efiicient means, in combination, for pivoting and bracing the board to permit the swinging of the same to ironing position and bracing the same in adjacence to the pivoted end of the board while in said position.

In a companion application filed April 18, 1945, Serial No. 589,030, I have disclosed and claimed the broad or underlying principal of the instant invention, and illustrated several practical embodiments thereof, the fundamental and distinguishing characteristic of the present invention residing in the simplicity and inexpensiveness of manufacture while maintaining comparable efliciency of operation. I

With the foregoing object in view a preferred embodiment of the invention comprises the ironing board provided with a sheet metal or equivalent transverse embracing or attaching member, carrying a sheet metal member or plate with an offset flange or flanges cooperatively related to a slotted plate, adapted to be secured to a supporting member or the like mounted on awall or cabinet, and pivoting means enabling the swinging of the board to operative or inoperative position and corresponding shifting of the restricting and bracing lug or flange, or lugs or flanges to limit the said swinging movement and stop or support the board in its expected operating pres-v sures or forces incident to ironing operations.

The invention of said embodiment also embraces the formation of the bracing or attaching member for the flanged stop and bracing. device, with integral or attached extensions running longitudinally of the board and strengthening the board to prevent flexing or give of the same longitudinally and from its pivoted end to obviate the necessity of depending or floor supports for the free end of the board when occupying ironing position.

Another embodiment of the invention comprises the formation of the plate with which the pivot end of the ironing board engages, of sheet or plate metal from which the limiting stop or stops for the swinging movement of the board may be pressed outwardly or bent, supplemented where necessary or desired, by an interior formation of the edge of the sheet or plate through which a complementally formed pivot extension of the board passes for additionally functioning as other stops or supports limiting the swinging movement or movements of the ironing board.

A still further modification resides in the providing of the embracing or supporting member that attaches the pivoted end of the ironing board to the plate, which it engages through the medium of a pivoting rivet, one end of which is headed over the supporting plate and the other end of which is riveted over the part of the, embracing or supporting member that is attached to the board and which has the lug or flange cooperating with the groove of said first-mentioned plate, preferably a flange or washer being interposed between the latter and the flange-carrying plate.

The details thus far related as other features of construction and arrangement will appear more fully from the specific description hereinafter contained when read in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and wherein the said preferred and other embodiments of the invention are illustrated.

In the drawings Figure l is a part top elevation and part section of a wall cabinet in which the improved ironing board (fragmentarily shown) is mounted, the board being in its outwardly swung or ironing position.

Figure 2 is a sectional view looking towards one of the end walls of the cabinet taken on the line :z::v of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an inside view looking towards said end wall of the cabinetand illustrating the stop plate in connection with which the ironing board is to be used and from which the board has been removed.

Figure 4 is an edge view of the inner end portionof the ironing board illustrating the embracing or supporting member engageable over the edge of the board and carrying the pivot and stop flanges or lugs therefor, adapted to engage the supporting plate on the inside of the cabinet as depicted in Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 5 is a detached view illustrating a modified construction involving the sheet metal supporting plate to be attached to the wall of the cabinet and which is formedwith the struck-out stops and an interior formation cooperative with a complemental formation of supporting shaft or pivot, the latter being shown in Figure 6.

Figure '7 is a sectional view illustrating a different manner of mounting and pivoting the flanged plate to its companionslotted stop plate. Referring more specifically to the drawings wherein like reference characters refer to corresponding parts in the several views 8 represents the back wall ofa wall cabinet or the like, 9 the end 'wallsthereoi and 10 the bottom mem her, it being understood that any suitable front door may be provided, if desired, and the same comment applied to the top. The end walls 9 have aligned openings H therein for a purpose that will be obvious. I2 is the ironing board of any suitable and preferred construction, reinforced as found necessary and convenient by means ,of a transversely disposed .sheet metal yoke or band E3o'f substantiakwidth, underlying and riveted as at M to'the inner or pivoted end of the board l2, passing around the opposite edges of the board as at 15, so that the ends I'B of the band overlie and are fastened totheupper face of the board. On the bottom face 'df'the board I2 forward extensions I'l,of theyoke1or* band l3, run outwardly toward the free end of reinforce the board against vibration orwbend it being understood that the extensions H are of sufiicient length and strength to be rigid and firm Ito'theendstated.

The intermediate portions of the gyokefi't, denominated 19, that .is the bent intermediate portions of the syokes that lie and are secured directly. against the side edges of Z the board fl'Z, constitute the ..metal..plates'from which thestop flanges .or lugs arebent outwardly, as clearly seen in 'fullsan'd also dotted lines, at'the opposite 'ends of the board (Figure 1), these flanges 28 being substantially straight .an'd bent outwardly at right angles from the plate 19 and adapted tov engage and .ride in-.arcuate slots 2] in Step plates I 22,-.one also at eachen'dof the cabinet 8, riveted to..-the end walls 9 of the latter as .at 23. T-heseearcuate slotsf2l rare arranged in diagonal ,position' relative "to :each other, 'but of course, are concentric to thedaxis .of rotation of the board [2, the opposite ends of-the slots engaging with the end edges or the stopfflanges 2.0 affording limitations confining ithe ,pivotal movements of the board l2 in ,opposite directions and offering firm 4 and bracing supports 'for the board when jiniironing ,position both forwardly and rearwardly of the pivotal axis of the board, theupper-end wall .oflthe slot 2! resisting downward movement of the .board forwardly of its pivotal axis and the corresponding .end of the lowerslot resisting upward movement of, the end of the board inwardly "beyond its .fpivo'tal axis ,so .that at two lpointsfo're land aft-the boardisbraced andf firmly retainedi'n operative position.

..In Figure 3 the plate 22 at one ,side wallofithe cabinet (a'nd, as stated, the plate is duplicated ineach instanceat the opposite sidewall of the cabinet) is shown independently of the ironing board '12 and itspivoting means, the plate havingia central opening 24, .and anintegral oylindrical "hollow stem constituting itheshaft 25 (Figure 1) is pressed or. extendedthe .same'being adapted to 'fit and rotate in a bearing sle'eveLlfi,

7 passed through the end Wall 9 of the cabinet,

medium ofa rivet ZSapasSingthrough theslotted the board and are riveted thereto'as-at W8, to I arerecessed as at 29 and 3G to accommodate the heads of the pivoting rivet. The latter is preferably free to turn in a rotative direction in the slotted plate 22a and also, if desired, in the plate i'ifia, butniay-have binding engagementbetween the'pivot member and the plate I9a as found expedient.

It may be desirable, in instances, rather than 'provideeither style of pivotal mounting as thus farexplained and illustrated in connection with Figures 1 and '7, to provide a shaft continuous from end-to-end and extending transversely across the ironing'bo'ard, as illustratedfragmentarily in'Figure 6 (it beingunderstood thatthe opposite end of the shaft is of the same formation as shown in Figures 5.and 6) said shafthaving an intermediate cut-out connectingjp'o'rtion 3 I inwhich the ironing board may be seated-and bolted thereto, the ends of the shaft being rounded as at 32 to fit inbearing sleeves, as 256 (Figure l) and having ribs33 extending longitudinally of, said endsto ride back-and-forth in diagonally related arcuate ways or recesses'ifi lfformedat the inner edge of the plate1;i22b,.'inthis"instance'in lieu of a plate such as 22 hereinbjeforedescribed, the ends'35 and 36 of thesearou'a'te ways-constituting abutting surfaces to support and bra'cefthe board when in horizontal or ironingposition'jas will be apparent. In this instance ancill'ary 'c'orresponding diagonally disposed lstops T31 'a'ndBB arecstruck from the metal of the platelZZhfth'e stop38 adaptedtosuppor'tthe ironing boardand resist the pressures or strains thereonin'ironing position while the stop 31' is contacted bythe inner end'of the board beyond'the pivoted'shaft'fito similarly'brace the board in an upward dir'e'tion at said end; and if found that bracing is expedient an additional abutment as 39may-berstruckinwardly from a back flange l'll fitting thecorner of the cabinet in position to havethe extreme "end of the board abut the same and also help prevent, upward movement of said end corresponding to downward movement of the forwardoriproject'ed free end of the board.

It will be noticed that the stopfiangesfidcooperating with the slots 2|, in,the;plate'2 2,'are straight Whereas the slots are curved but the length of the flanges is such that'they jr'n'ay ride without diificulty in'the slots, any frictional engagement between the ends ofthe-gfl'angesflllwith the walls of the slots "2| being of advantage "in resisting somewhat'a too easy swing of the bjoard l2 on its pivots while not interfering withi'the ready projecting of the board from the casingor closing of the same into the cabinet.

From the foregoing disclosures itwill be 'apparent' that slight changes or--'a1teratioris'-in the various forms and arrangements ofpartsjillustrated mayberesorted to as may be-embrace'dwitliinthe scope of the hereto appendedolaim.

I claim:

'In combination with a cabinet 'h'a v-in'gs ide Walls, of means for mountinganironin'g' boardin said cabinet to swing therefrom into i roning positio'n, "comprising ;a pa-ir of pintles "at the-side edges rof said board, "bearing members mounted in "the side walls f or rbtatably receiving the-pintles, plates secured to said side walls and surrounding said bearing members, said plates being provided with arcuate slots, and a sheet metal strap for reinforcing said ironing board, including a central part secured to the underside of said board, end portions secured to the top of said board and elongated plate sections intermediate said central part and end portions engaging the side edges of the board, said elongated plate sections carrying the pintles and provided with end extensions turned parallel to the pivotal axis to enter the arcuate slots of the plates and limit the swinging movements of the board.

ALPHA PERRY LANTZ.

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